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...HARRY BLACKMUN...
...Blackmun's 1977 opinion that lawyers have a right to advertise, he could not resist twitting some in his profession...
...false. Therefore, he said, the Government's use of the term to classify the films "has no pejorative connotation," and to require that they be registered under that law does not chill First Amendment freedoms. The dissenters complained that the majority reasoning smacked of newspeak. Wrote Justice Harry Blackmun: "It simply strains credulity for the court to assert that 'propaganda' is a neutral classification...
Justices William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens dissented, calling the study proof of impermissible lingering racism in American justice. "Race casts a large shadow on the capital sentencing process," wrote Brennan. The dissenters questioned why statistical evidence, acceptable for attacking discrimination in employment or jury selection, was not acceptable in this case. They also charged that the majority was driven by other than judicial concerns -- a fear of disrupting the implementation of the criminal-justice system in Georgia and elsewhere...
Justices William J. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun and John Paul Stevens dissented...